5 Design Things to Do This Week
Your week in design events from DnA.
Patrick Marston Brings “Abbot’s Dream” to Google
Twenty years ago advertising mogul Jay Chiat came up with a radical notion for the workplace. “He consigned the concept of private space to the scrap heap of office history…
Cedars-Sinai through a doctor’s lens
For four decades, endocrinologist Dr. Roger Lerner walked the halls of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center solely to attend to patients. But when he bought a first-generation iPhone six years ago, he…
Broad Architect Liz Diller Brings Theatrics to Grand Ave., While Losing Her Irony About LA
For several years Angelenos’ expectations for The Broad were shaped by one striking rendering. It showed an expressive, perforated concrete box, lifted at the corners. This was the proposed facade of a building…
My Mom Went to Dismaland and All She Got Me Were These Lousy Pictures
If you’ve heard enough about Dismaland, exit this post. But I was tickled when I learned my mom — who is not an art world hipster — recently paid a…
Is it Goodbye to the Griffith Park Teahouse?
One of the delights of this summer has been the appearance of the Griffith Park Teahouse, a meditative space built on an existing concrete pad in a remote corner of Griffith…
Pae White Flies High In Berlin
As the capital of a reunited Germany, Berlin’s population is surging each year, and every weekend also attracts thousands of partying members of the so-called “Easy Jet set” – Europeans bouncing…
10 Pop Art Prints from the ‘Rebel Nun’ Who Was Inspired By Andy Warhol
Corita Kent, the so-called “rebel nun” and screen printer, created a rich body of work that has garnered a cult following.
PHOTOS: Dance + Design II, The Language of Dance: The Eloquence of Astaire
I’m a Los Angeles-based photographer and I had read about DANCE+DESIGN II The Language of Dance: The Eloquence of Astaire, here on DnA’s blog. I decided to attend and photograph…
Photographer Documents the Cast-off Sofas and Mattresses of LA
Have you ever been on a sofa safari? DnA’s Caroline Chamberlain joined L.A.-based assistant director and photographer Andrew Ward on a recent Saturday morning to hunt down our city’s abandoned sofas…